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First rotery

Post by cgator2 » Thu Aug 26, 2010 6:14 pm

OK guys this is my very first rotary work. I had to make a ring for the olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte commissioned by his girlfriend. Give input as this is the only way other than practice to get better. LOL
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Post by Jwlrymkr » Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:51 am

Nice one gator :D

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Post by p schmidt » Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:02 am

hate to critique but you asked ...looks like the edge walls are a little thin
but what do I know...
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Post by p schmidt » Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:04 am

and maybe the torch could be a set a little lower into the shank so it doesn't stick out past the shank
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Post by cgator2 » Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:48 am

Thanks Guys for the input. Pat the walls could have been a little thicker, you're right . The torch body is not really as high as it looks as the flames are all diff. heights. Anyway she picked it up this morning and loved it. Best part was it was from scrap and dia breakouts. This paid for 1/3 of the machine. Going to love this. Already have 3 more rings to do.

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Post by Jwlrymkr » Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:53 am

Congrats on that one gator!
Pat, why don't you post up some real work of yours so that we can critique it?

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Post by p schmidt » Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:54 am

gotta love the sale ,specially from scraps
I've posted plenty throughout the years but since you insist... here's a fast simple one I'm working on sz 10.5 (wax was presized using my dial in sizer)
had to be 5.5 mm wide using her stones 9 -2.6mm couldn't find a ready made mounting so I had to make this one fast! ...rough casting to be set and polished ....used my scrap 14 kt white ...charged $550.00 also ring curves were 'faired' as I showed you before on the 'fair curves 'video
...I do not polish before setting (only the channel gets polished)
now where's yours?
chow
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Post by Jwlrymkr » Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:15 am

Thanks for the tip on the fair curves. It doesn't look like it helped your models smoothness any. Whats with the grooves in the casting?
Post pics when you get the stones set and polished.

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Post by p schmidt » Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:35 am

actually it did! see video.. the lines are very small in reallity as the pictue is blown up about a thousand percent so you see every little thing
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Post by p schmidt » Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:46 am

here it shows the final results from fair curves better
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Post by Jwlrymkr » Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:04 pm

ya, thanks for that. You could probably get the same results or close to them if you simply rebuilt your curve to a degree 5.
Also, you might want to think about tightening up your render mesh settings. You have some pretty awful faceting on your surfaces in the render.
Still don't know what the lines or grooves are in the casting?
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Post by p schmidt » Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:44 pm

yeah I've been seeing that lately not sure how to tighten it up how do you do that...the video was of the stl file are my settings right for the stl? I think something changed on me
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Post by p schmidt » Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:45 pm

that's a capture of the stl file.... opened in rhino
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Post by p schmidt » Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:06 pm

changed my settings ... much better stl now!
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Post by cgator2 » Fri Aug 27, 2010 7:01 pm

Man I 've gotta learn this Rhino, you guys are so far ahead of me its not funny. But for now 3dengrave will have to do. Thanks for the input guys.

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